Gordon sits deep in Douglas County, where Wisconsin's Northwoods begins in earnest — a landscape of white pines, birch stands, paper-thin lakes, and the kind of quiet that's hard to find closer to the Twin Cities or the Milwaukee corridor. The St. Croix River headwaters run through this country, and the terrain is classic glaciated northwoods: rolling, wooded, and genuinely remote.
Gordon Pines reads like a course shaped by its surroundings rather than imposed on them. The name alone signals what to expect — tall pines framing fairways, needle-carpeted rough, and the soft, dappled light that comes through a mature conifer canopy on a summer morning. That setting tends to reward shotmaking over pure power, with tree corridors demanding accuracy off the tee and approach angles that matter hole to hole.
For golfers making the drive up Highway 53, this is the kind of stop that defines northwoods golf in Wisconsin: unhurried, unpretentious, and genuinely scenic. It exists for the love of the game in a place where the landscape does most of the heavy lifting.
